Bertrand Faivre

Producer

BIOGRAPHIE

Producer France In 1992, after a stint as head of acquisitions at UGC DA in France, Bertrand Faivre joined Les Productions Lazennec (Hate, The Scent of Green Papaya). From 1993 to 2002, he produced twenty or so French short films and a dozen European titles, a dozen of which were selected at Clermont-Ferrand, where they also brought home awards. He began producing feature films in 1996 with Jacques Deschamps’ Still Water Runs Deep. In 2000, he founded the independent British production company The Bureau and, a year later, Le Bureau, in France. Since then, he’s alternated French and English productions with numerous well-known filmmakers whose careers he launched and who have also been part of the Festival: Asif Kapadia, Fabienne Godet, Sarah Gavron and Lynne Ramsay, for example. Working with established filmmakers such as Roger Michell, Erick Zonca, Rachid Bouchareb and Costa-Gavras over the years, his eclectic tastes have also led him across the globe to produce multi-award-winning films as diverse as Isolation by Billy O'Brien, Christian Carion’s Farewell, Late Bloomers by Julie Gavras,Fabienne Berthaud’s Lily Sometimes and Sky, Alan Rickman’s A Little Chaos, Sex Doll by Sylvie Verheyde and Oliver Peyon’s Une vie ailleurs [A Life Elsewhere]. 2017 marked his first collaboration with Jean Libon and Yves Hinant, co-creator and regular director, respectively, of several of the documentaries for the show Strip-tease: the documentary So Help Me God, released in 2018. His most recent production, David Dufresne’s documentary The Monopoly of Violence, was one of 2020’s biggest successes, despite COVID-19. Under Vincent Gadelle’s leadership, through The Bureau Sales, Le Bureau and The Bureau have been developed to represent one of the foremost catalogues of television rights in France (with nearly 1,200 titles), in addition to a company for international sales dedicated to films that are produced or co-produced internally, paired with a huge catalogue of arthouse films. Bertrand Faivre won the Georges de Beauregard award for best short film producer in 1996 and was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 1999. COURTS MÉTRAGES (sélection) 1993: L’eau qui dort by Jacques Deschamps, National selection Clermont-Fd 1994 1993: Les pieds sous la table by Marc-Henri Dufresne & François Morel, Special Mention of the National Jury Clermont-Fd 1994, Tous à table ! selection Clermont-Fd 2018 1994: Le beau Pavel by Lou Jeunet, National selection Clermont-Fd 1995 1994: Les enfants s’ennuient le dimanche de Matthieu Poirot-Delpech, sélection jeunes publics Clermont-Fd 1996 1996: Kill the Day by Lynne Ramsay, National Special Jury Price Clermont-Fd 1997 1996: Une belle nuit de fête by Lionel Epp, Special Mention of the National Jury Clermont-Fd 1997 1997: Le miracle de la Saint Alba by Manuel Poutte, National selection Clermont-Fd 1998 1997: Last Man Out by Rachel Tillotson, National Press Prize Clermont-Fd 1998 1997: Fritz et Franz by Gaby Schaedler, National selection Clermont-Fd 1998 1997: Deux bananes flambées et l’addition by Gilles Pujol, National selection Clermont-Fd 1998 1998: As I was Falling by Rachel Tillotson, National selection Clermont-Fd 1999 1998: La tentation de l’innocence de Fabienne Godet, Adami Award for Best Actress to Emmanuelle Devos Clermont-Ferrand 1999 2001: The Tail by Andy Shelley, National selection Clermont-Fd 2002 LONGS MÉTRAGES (selection) 1996: Méfie-toi de l’eau qui dort by Jacques Deschamps, Best First Film Award, Venice International Film Festival (Italy) 1996 1999: Ratcatcher by Lynne Ramsay, Carl Foreman Award, BAFTA (United Kingdom) 2000 2002: The Warrior by Asif Kapadia, Douglas Hickox Prize, Best Photography Award, BIFA (United Kingdom) 2000 2005: Joyeux Noël by Christian Carion, nominations Oscar, César (France), BAFTA, Golden Globes 2006 2007: Far North by Asif Kapadia, Venice International Film Festival selection (Italy) 2007 2007: Julia by Erick Zonca, Berlinale selection (Germany) 2008 2009:

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